Postcritical Ethnography

This chapter introduces postcritical ethnography. Addressing its location in relationship to critical ethnography and postmodernism, the authors outline similarities and differences across critical ethnography, the reflexively critical postcritical ethnography, and the post-structural post-critical ethnography. These forms of ethnography are described as a set of understandings: power, particularity, partiality, provisionality, participation, (our own) person, positionality, perspectives, and possibilities. The chapter ends with the logic of the book and descriptions of the chapters that follow.